The Archive · 1939

Sponsored Agitation

Meanwhile, other high Washianon diplomatic officials called attention to the intensification of the anti-British campaign throughout Japan in the form of meetings and demonstrations.

'They believed that it was only' natural to believe that such anti-British outbursts were Government Inspired, since the Japanese Govern-meat rigidly controled the rights of These demonstrations, the threat of more rigid blockade of Tientsin and increasing evidence that the Ang! Japanese negotiations at Tokyo would Probably tail, led the diplomats to believe that the situation vis-d-vis Sapar. and foreign interests would generally' worsen, They foresaw the possibility that further developments might strengthen Senatorial sentiment favouring Senator Key Pittman's embargo amendment aimed at violators of the Nine Power Treaty—United Press.

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